It is also illegal to carry an ice-cream cone in your pocket in Kentucky.

Just sayin'... Maybe you need to judge a place and its people by what they have to pass laws against...

"I don't mean to sound bitter, cynical or cruel; but I am, so that's how it comes out." ~ Bill Hicks."To argue with a person who has renounced reason is like administering medicine to the dead." ~ Thomas Paine."One should not believe everything one reads on the internet." ~ Abraham Lincoln."If you're making a political point wearing a balaclava, you're a c***. It was true for the IRA and it's true now." ~ daftbeaker.

Can you imagine the resulting lawsuits from this though? Unfair incarnation, reputational damage from criminal proceedings, possible loss of work, damages to legal record - the list is endless. The payout would be extraordinary.

Dogmatic religion, providing excuses for oppression for over nineteen centuries...

TDKs wrote:Ice cream cone? Really? Does it matter if it has icecream in, or not?

Can you imagine the resulting lawsuits from this though? Unfair incarnation, reputational damage from criminal proceedings, possible loss of work, damages to legal record - the list is endless. The payout would be extraordinary.

Dogmatic religion, providing excuses for oppression for over nineteen centuries...

I can't wait to see that one! I'm assuming the person suing would be a Buddhist?

Looks like it's on its way to the Supreme Court. I can't imagine anything this foolish surviving at that level.

That article wrote:A practicing Baptist minister, Riner is solely devoted to his faith--even when that directly conflicts with his job as state representative. He has often been at the center of unconstitutional and expensive controversies throughout his 26 years in office. In the last ten years, for example, the state has spent more than $160,000 in string of losing court cases against the American Civil Liberties Union over the state’s decision to display the Ten Commandments in public buildings, legislation that Riner sponsored.

How is it even possible to be that dumb? I mean I could literally, right now, go into the bottom of my sock drawer and pull out an old, mostly-worn-out sock, ask it about the constitutionality of this crap, and it would immediately and decisively slam this Riner guy with a pithy remark and aspersions about his ancestry. Good thing today's a drinking day.

"Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens."("Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.")-- Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805)Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.-- Philip K DickOK, now let's look at four dimensions on the blackboard.-- Dr. JoyEnglish isn't much of a language for swearing. When I studied Ancient Greek I was delighted to discover a single word - Rhaphanidosthai - which translates roughly as "Be thou thrust up the fundament with a radish for adultery."